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Deadly Awards 1998
Winners of The Deadlys Awards 1998, the awards were an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. Music *Outstanding Contribution to Aboriginal Music – CAAMA *Most Promising New Talent – Native Ryme Syndicate *Male Artist of The Year – Archie Roach *Female Artist of The Year – Christine Anu *Album Release of The Year – The Pigram Brothers, ''Saltwater Country'' *Band of The Year – NoKTuRNL *Single Release of The Year – Warren H Williams, ''Raining on the Rock'' Arts *Excellence in Film or Theatrical Score – Jimmy Chi, Kuckles, The Pigram Brothers – '' Corrugation Road'' Community *Aboriginal Broadcaster of The Year – Mary Geddardyu (Mary G alter ego of Mark Bin Bakar Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician, comedian and radio announcer, writer, director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deadlys
The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The event was held from 1995 to 2013. Description The Deadlys were an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The word "Australian Aboriginal English#Deadly, deadly" is a modern colloquialism used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to indicate "great or wonderful". History The first Deadlys were held in 1995, at the Boomalli Artist Co-op, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op in the Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern suburb of Sydney. They stemmed from Boomalli's 1993 ''Deadly Sounds'' music and culture radio show, and were driven by Gavin Jones (media executive), Gavin Jones. Over the next few years, their venue shifted through The Metro Theatre, the Hard Rock Café, Home (Nightclub Chain), Home in Darling Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAAMA
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980 to expose Aboriginal music and culture to the rest of Australia. It started with 8KIN-FM, the first Aboriginal radio station in the country. Based in Alice Springs, the organisation is particularly focused on the involvement of the local Indigenous community in its production. CAAMA is involved in radio, television and recorded music. History Origins and Imparja In 1980, CAAMA originally established itself as a public radio station by two Aboriginal people and one " whitefella": Freda Glynn, Phillip Batty, and John Macumba. 8KIN-FM was the first Aboriginal radio station. The success of the station quickly grew, leading its content to extend into music (country music and Aboriginal rock), call-ins, discussion, and news and current affairs. Broadcasts were made in six different languages, alongside English, and operated about fifteen hours every day. Later expansions saw the station move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Ryme Syndicate
Native Ryme Syndicate is an Australian hip hop group formed in Brisbane, Queensland. Native Ryme Syndicate won a Deadly award in 1998 for Most Promising New Talent. They were the first Australian urban music group to the elite music festivals and have played with Spiderbait, Regurgitator and 28 Days as well as at the Big Day Out and Livid LiViD, short for Linux Video and DVD, was a collection of projects that aim to create program tools and software library, software libraries related to DVD for Linux operating system. The projects included: * OMS * GATOS * mpeg2dec * ac3dec In 20 ... festivals.Port Douglas & Mossman Gazette, 20 November 2003, "Rapt in rap" Named as one of the best unknown rap/hip-hop music groups in the World by Grammy Award-winning US group Naughty By Nature (Tour 2004). The group are known today as Native Ryme. Native Ryme are releasing their debut full-length album in 2013 after 19 years since formation. Discography *''Native Ryme Syndicate'' (2006) R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Roach
Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter (1955–2010). Roach first became known for the song "Took the Children Away", which featured on his debut solo album, ''Charcoal Lane'', in 1990. He toured around the globe, headlining and opening shows for Joan Armatrading, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega and Patti Smith. His work has been recognised by numerous nominations and awards, including a Deadly Award for a "Lifetime Contribution to Healing the Stolen Generations" in 2013. At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards on 25 November 2020, Roach was inducted into their ARIA Hall of Fame, hall of fame. His 2019 memoir and accompanying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Anu
Christine Anu (born 15 March 1970) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She gained popularity with the cover song release of the Warumpi Band's song " My Island Home". Anu has been nominated for 17 ARIA Awards. Early life Anu was born on 15 March 1970 in Cairns, Queensland, to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai. Anu attended Emmaus College in Rockhampton where she graduated from in 1987 before studying at the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association in Sydney. Music career Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for the Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993 with " Last Train", a dance remake of a Paul Kelly song. The follow-up, "Monkey and the Turtle", was based on a traditional story. After " My Island Home", she released her first album, '' Stylin' Up'', which went platinum. In 1995, Neil Murray won an Australasian Performing Right Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pigram Brothers
The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from the pearling town of Broome, Western Australia, formed in 1996. They were heavily involved in Broome's musical and theatrical exports – forming the original backing band for Jimmy Chi's 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'', which received international acclaim. The Pigram Brothers had a large music influence from an early age, and grew up in the rich musical culture of Broome. Alan, Steven and Phillip were members of Scrap Metal from 1983 until its separation in 1995.Radio National – live on stage The Pigram Brothers Friday 22 August 2003 In 2000 they were the subject of the one-hour documentary, ''Saltwater Country'', part of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NoKTuRNL
Nokturnl is a band formed in 1996 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Sometimes called rap metal; their music is hard to categorise, but their lyrics are influenced by their experience as Indigenous Australians. Nokturnl won "Band of the Year" at The Deadlys in 1998, 2000 and 2003.1998 Deadlys , Winners list2000 Deadlys , Winners list2003 Deadlys Winners list They signed with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren H Williams
Warren Hedley Williams (born 27 December 1963) is an Aboriginal Australian singer, musician and songwriter from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. As of 2013 he worked as a broadcaster on CAAMA Radio in Alice Springs. Early life Williams was born on 27 December 1963 in Hermannsburg, the son of country musician Gus Williams. He is an Arrernte man. He started playing guitar at the age of six with his father, and later went to school at a Lutheran college in Adelaide: Immanuel College in Novar Gardens. Music career In 2007, he wrote the musical ''Magic Coolamon,'' which debuted as the first ever Central Australian Indigenous musical. Williams toured with John Williamson many times, including "Hillbilly Road" in 2008. In 2015, Williams invited long-time friend and award-winning Australian singer Shane Nicholson to visit his hometown of Hermannsburg (Ntaria) to help break his writer's block. Williams took him to sacred sites and shared Aboriginal Dreaming stories which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Chi
James Ronald Chi (1948 – 26 June 2017) was an Australian composer, musician and playwright. His best known work is the 1990 musical ''Bran Nue Dae'' which was adapted for film in 2009. Early life Chi was born in Broome, Western Australia in 1948 to a father of Chinese and Japanese descent and a mother of Scottish, Bardi and Nyulnyul descent. Career From 1981 to 1982 Chi was the lead singer of the band Kuckles, before they disbanded. Chi's most acclaimed work is ''Bran Nue Dae'', written in collaboration with his band Kuckles, Scrap Metal, the Pigram brothers and friends. ''Bran Nue Dae'', is a partly autobiographical work which took Jimmy many years to write. It celebrates family, forgiveness and reconciliation and was a hit at the Festival of Perth in 1990 where it was performed by the Black Swan Theatre. It went on to tour Australia extensively and it was Australia's most successful musical play of the early 1990s. One of the famous verses from a song in the musical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuckles
Kuckles ( Broome kriol for '' cockles'') was an Australian band. They formed in 1981 by students from Broome, Western Australia studying at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music in Adelaide. Their music moved from acoustic calypso toward an electric reggae/rock style. They recorded an audition tape, ''Milliya Rumarra'', which won them a trip to Germany to the Third Annual International Cologne Song Festival in 1982. They returned to Broome later that year and disbanded. Kuckles contributed to Chi's musicals ''Bran Nue Dae'' and ''Corrugation Road''. Chi and Manolis later were part of a new band called Bingurr which is moonlight in Bardi. Pigram played with Scrap Metal and The Pigram Brothers. Discography Studio albums Soundtrack albums Awards and nominations Deadly Awards The Deadly Awards were an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. They ran from 1995 to 2013. (wins only) , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrugation Road
''Corrugation Road'' is an Australian musical set in a mental hospital, about an Aboriginal schizophrenic patient. It was written by Jimmy Chi, his band Kuckles and friends, the creators of ''Bran Nue Dae''. It is based on Chi's own experiences at Perth's Graylands Hospital. Production history ''Corrugation Road'' was produced by Perth's Black Swan Theatre and had two successful theatre runs in 1996–1997 and 1998. The musical previewed at the Canberra Theatre from 10 October 1996 during the National Festival of Australian Theatre. It subsequently had its official premiere in Melbourne at the Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre from 17 October 1996 as part of the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. The tour then played Perth (Subiaco Theatre Centre) and Adelaide (Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre) through late 1996 and early 1997. The production was remounted in June 1998 at the Playhouse Theatre in Perth before undertaking an Australian national tour. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bin Bakar
Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician, comedian and radio announcer, writer, director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He is best known for his radio and television character, the acid-tongued Mary Geddarrdyu or Mary G, who has gained a national cult following and has been described as a Dame Edna Everage in thongs. In character Mary G has hosted a radio program and hosted a variety show broadcast nationally on SBS Television. Career Mary G The son of a Catholic Indigenous mother and a Malay Muslim father from Singapore, Bakar created the character Mary G as a Stolen Generations woman like his mother. She first featured on Bin Bakar's radio show in Broome at Radio Goolarri in 1993 where she tackled issues of domestic violence, sexual health and reconciliation, and was particularly popular with aboriginal women. The Mary G show has played at the Sydney Opera House and at festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
